[NTLK] Newton Press runs in Wine

[Tony Morrow]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Abraham Limpo wrote:

> Sadly, Wine has a long story about getting to recognize correctly  
> the serial
> ports you have exposed, especially if they are USB devices.

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Yes, using WINE to run Windows applications on Linux or OS X is pretty  
cool. I have tried multiple times to get NCU to work with WINE while  
running Ubuntu and Fedora. Unfortunately all attempts were  
unsuccessful. I mapped the TTY location of my Keyspan serial port to  
WINE and set my user permissions to access the serial port. When my  
Newton tried to connect to NCU, the application locked up and the Dock  
timed out. I don't know what's causing the issues and I do not have  
the programming skills to debug and diagnose the problem. I just hope  
that one day WINE will get an update or patch that accidentally fixes  
the issue.

-Tony Morrow